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Asia Pacific

BEEF BAN LOSSES
Japanese retail and restaurant industry hit hard by the ban on U.S. beef.

Europe

British Columbia offers millions to keep calves off the market
A joint program by the Canadian government and British Columbia's government would provide ranchers with almost $12 million (USD) to keep 70,000 calves off the market this year.

British health official calls for more vCJD testing
A senior statistician for the British Medical Research Council recommends that autopsies of people who die before age 45 should routinely test for the presence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, according to an article published in the medical journal the Lancet.

USA

U.S., Japan meet again over beef ban, but immediate solution unlikely
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, met last week to discuss a wide-ranging set of issues, including American troops in Okinawa, mutual policy toward North Korea and ending the ban on imported American beef. According to Japanese news reports, Machimura told Powell that the two countries should "seek a solution based on the results of talks between experts from the two countries" — a polite "no."

Proposed legislation calls for single agency to oversee U.S. food supply
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) last week introduced legislation that would create a single agency responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply.

Asia Pacific

BEEF BAN LOSSES
Japanese retail and restaurant industry hit hard by the ban on U.S. beef.

Europe

British Columbia offers millions to keep calves off the market
A joint program by the Canadian government and British Columbia's government would provide ranchers with almost $12 million (USD) to keep 70,000 calves off the market this year.

British health official calls for more vCJD testing
A senior statistician for the British Medical Research Council recommends that autopsies of people who die before age 45 should routinely test for the presence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, according to an article published in the medical journal the Lancet.

USA

U.S., Japan meet again over beef ban, but immediate solution unlikely
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and his Japanese counterpart, Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura, met last week to discuss a wide-ranging set of issues, including American troops in Okinawa, mutual policy toward North Korea and ending the ban on imported American beef. According to Japanese news reports, Machimura told Powell that the two countries should "seek a solution based on the results of talks between experts from the two countries" — a polite "no."

Proposed legislation calls for single agency to oversee U.S. food supply
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro (D-Conn.) last week introduced legislation that would create a single agency responsible for ensuring the safety of the nation's food supply.